Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — A HORROR IN IOWA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A HORROR IN IOWA.

Eight Insane Persons Burned to Death In a Poor House. The building on the Boone county poor farm, near Boone. la.,where the incurable insane were confined, was burned at 10 o’clock Tuesday night and eight of the nine inmates were burned to death. Only one woman, Mrs. Hibbard, escaped from the burning building and gave the alarm to the steward, Holcomb, who was in the main building adjacent. It was then too late to save the insane people, and the main building was saved only by the greatest effort. The steward says that he banked the fires.in the furnace about 9 o’clock, and does not know how the fire originated unless from a defective flue.

President of the Provisional Government of Hawaii.

SANFORD B. DOLE.